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Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

It's an industry that's earning literal billions every single year...they absolutely don't need to have ads, they could serve their paying users a good ad-free product, and still make money. They choose to deliberately annoy their paying customers because they're fucking greedy.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

They choose to deliberately annoy their paying customers because...

Capitalism. Must not only make profits, and must not only make the same profits as last time, but must make MORE profits. They must always increase or else you're declining according to capitalism. The greed is built in to the system.

Fuck the system.

[–] Copernican@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Fake news. Netflix is the only one making a profit. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/17/hollywood-streaming-profits-struggles.html

I don't know why lemmy users love spreading misinformation that all streaming platforms are taking in profit hand over fist.

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not talkong about streaming services in an isolated case, I'm talking about the entire company behind it. It only makes sense to evaluate them as a whole and not their subcategories in isolation from the rest of their company.

Paramount, Disney and HBO are profiting in the billions.

[–] Copernican@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You were talking about the streaming platform specifically as an industry.

it's an industry that's earning literal billions every single year...they absolutely don't need to have ads, they could serve their paying users a good ad-free product, and still make money. They choose to deliberately annoy their paying customers because they're fucking greedy.

It's okay to be corrected.